Automate Creation of a VPC

ACM.60 Creating an AWS VPC with a CloudFormation template

Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. Network Security. The Code.

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We’ve been working on setting up a Lambda function. We looked at using AWS Lambda with Parameter Store and then in the last post, we added encryption to our Parameter using a KMS key.

Adding a KMS Key Id to AWS SSM Parameter Store

Now let’s look at some of the other security controls we’ll need for our lambda function. I already wrote about Lambda networking options here:

Lambda Networking

We’re going to need some a VPC for some configuration changes I plan to make, along with some subnets and security groups. There’s also a VPC, subnet, and security group I should have created from the start but just getting around to it now.

Note that I am not going to cover all aspects of VPC creation, just what is relevant to our current architecture…